woensdag 4 april 2012

starting a HAED and links to giveaways

Last week my HAED chart arrived. As I have been a lot of spring cleaning, I ignored it until yesterday. At that time it screamed way too loud to be ignored so I had to start it. Okay, I have only prepared the fabric and gathered the floss, but it is a start. The only thing that worries me is the size of the fabric. anyone has an advise on that? what do I do with the big bulk of fabric Doesn't the fabric I'm not stitching on in my way?

I also decided to start again on the sal 'the great escape', designed by wonderful Abi for the specialty stitchers. I didn't like the colours I chose, but I did like the specialty stitches, so I decided I could better start all over. I promise to put a picture very soon!

a second giveaway is being organized by Kath whose blog I only recently discovered. I've seen she has a lot of puzzling on her blog and sells some stash of hers, for those who are interested:-) http://kathsstitchingheaven.blogspot.co.uk/

14 opmerkingen:

Anoniem
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WOW! What a wonderful design! I have never even attempted a HAED before, or anything that large, so I don't have any advice about your extra fabric. I'm looking forward to watching your progress on this one!

I let the fabric hang free. I know others gather excess fabric in hair clips and hair elastics. If you use Qsnaps, you can get covers that will hold a lot of extra fabric. I am so glad you're going for an HAED - they are addictive for many, maybe for you too!

I use scroll rods for large projects and role the excess fabric around the scroll rod. I admire you for taking on a HAED design, they look awesome, but what a lot of work. Thanks for the links to the giveaways.

Oh, I love Fairy Tales. It's lovely, Ducinella. I've got it on my wishlist too. (I love to sit and look and try to identify the fairy tales everyone is from, lol.) And I use a Q-snap to stitch on. I keep the excess fabby out of my way with a Q-snap huggie. It's a piece of fabric (with elastic) that goes around the Q-snap and holds the excess fabby out of the way. You can buy them at a great price here: www.qsnaphuggies.com. I buy all of mine from Chris, and she's wonderful. If you ask her to, I'm sure she can make your huggie a little big bigger so you'll have room to tuck all the extra fabby in while you work. I hope this helps.

Thank you for visiting my blog. Look forward to see your start on your HAED. I've never stitched on something that big but usually I roll up the excess fabrics on my q-snaps and hold it with those paper butterfly clips. Works so far for me.

By the way, to answer the question you left on my blog since I couldn't email you, the fabric I'm using for Stargazer is Silkweaver Starquest 32 count opalescent Belfast.